. e made for him, to which posterityis indebted for one of his most excellent works,the History of Animals. Meanwhile various-causes contributed to throw a cloud over thelatter years of the philosophers life. In thefirst place, he felt deeply the death of his wife,.Pythias, who left behind her a daughter of thesame name: he lived subsequently with afriend of his wifes, the slave Herpyllis, whobore him a son, Nicomachus. Another troublewas the breach in his friendship with Alexander,caused by the affair of Callisthenes. [See Alex-ande
. e made for him, to which posterityis indebted for one of his most excellent works,the History of Animals. Meanwhile various-causes contributed to throw a cloud over thelatter years of the philosophers life. In thefirst place, he felt deeply the death of his wife,.Pythias, who left behind her a daughter of thesame name: he lived subsequently with afriend of his wifes, the slave Herpyllis, whobore him a son, Nicomachus. Another troublewas the breach in his friendship with Alexander,caused by the affair of Callisthenes. [See Alex-ander ; Callisthenes.] The story that Ari-stotle had a share in poisoning the king is afabrication of a later age; and moreover it iscertain that Alexander died a natural the death of Alexander (323) Aristotle waslooked upon with suspicion at Athens as afriend of Macedonia; but as it was not easy tobring any political accusation against him, hewas accused of impiety (a<re/8eias) by the hiero-phant Eurymedon. He withdrew from Athens AEISTOTELES 117. apizto. Lust of Aristotle. before his trial, and escaped in the beginningof 322 to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died inthe course of the same year, in the 03rd year ofhis age, of a chronic disease of the body was transported to his native cityStagira, and his memory was honoured there,lite that of a hero, by yearly festivals. He be-queathed to Theophrastus his well-storedlibrary and the originals of his writings. Im-plicit reliance cannot be placed on the depre-ciatory picture of some later writers, thatAristotle was sLort and of slender make,with small eyes, and a lisp in his pro-nunciation, using L for It, and with a sortof sarcastic expression in his countenance(Diog. Laert. v. 1; Ael. iii. 19 ; Anth. 170). At any rate these carpings showthat there was nothingto allege against the no-bility of character whichmay be inferred from hiswritings. He exhibitedremarkable attention toexternal appearance
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